Appearance, 1) visibleness: “chased your blood out of a.” H5 II, 2, 76. “bearing with frank a. their purposes toward Cyprus,” Oth. I, 3, 38. “there is no a. of fancy in him,” Ado III, 2, 31. “no man should possess him with any a. of fear,” H5 IV, 1, 116.
2) semblance: “had three times slain the a. of the king,” H4B I, 1, 128.
3) personal presence: “if she deny the a. of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing self,” H5 V, 2, 324. H6A V, 3, 8. H8 II, 4, 132. Oth. I, 2, 37 (cf. not-appearance).
4) presence, outside: “thy fair a.” Sonn. 46, 8. “you see what a ragged a. it is,” H4B III, 2, 279. “thou hast a grim a.” Cor. IV, 5, 66.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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